It has been yes, and it isn't over yet. We've had significant issues mobilizing the public to address the issue so we've possibly been saddled with a longer re

It has been yes, and it isn't over yet. We've had significant issues mobilizing the public to address the issue so we've possibly been saddled with a longer recovery time than we'd otherwise have but traditional environmental shortage events (droughts and flooding) could effect areas for decades. And this did occasionally happen on a global scale as well - see the winter of 536[1] or the Krakatoa explosion of 1883[2] - occasionally the world gets dealt a really rough hand, we're better at responding to global issues like that now but we're still not great. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa